Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Catchafire : Time-sensitive requests for short-term projects in our active, virtual volunteer pool can assist with items such as email marke ting setup to spread awareness about health and safety, consultation on remote best practices, and much more. offers virtual volunteers opportunities to help with two main projects , ?

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

I met Zena Weist through Chris Brogan when they (and Twitter) helped me raise money to send two Cambodians to college last October. Zena Weist is wondering about whether Chris Brogan's Twitter Pack Project can be defined as community sourcing which distinctly different than crowd sourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

TechSoup’s community boost_r project invited Manchester’s Steven Flower to reveal his top five secrets for holding community events. Baltimore, MD: June Tech & Social Change Baltimore Meetup: Wikipedia. Portland, OR: Getting People to Click DONATE on Your Nonprofit Website. Thursday, June 6. Friday, June 7.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The money is in sponsorship from companies that want to be favorably exposed in one fell swoop to a critical mass of the best and brightest of the young technoid class. For more information, here’s the Campus Party Wikipedia Page and here’s a BBC report on a Brazilian Campus Party.). Food for a week cost another $80.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

Data 67

Data Story New York City New York 67

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

While it's possible to argue that the role money plays in the persistence of digital inequality is diminishing , it is difficult. Infrastructure, of course, requires more money. Money isn't the only factor contributing to digital inequality, just the most significant (and possibly, the easiest to address). Money, it's a drag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. Eugene related this to working with international networks, "There is a chance to screw up in the projects, but you can't go in with that mindset. Everyone is people.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Consultant Social Media Myspace Advocacy 31

Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Ask about security: are they PCI Compliant (you can look this up on Wikipedia), and if so what level? No matter which vendor you select, its important to understand "its just a tool and wont raise money on its own. No matter which vendor you select, its important to understand "its just a tool and wont raise money on its own."

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Check to make sure you are updated in places that matter: Guidestar , CharityNavigator , GreatNonprofits , Wikipedia , and GlassDoor.com. Will your Giving Tuesday money go towards a new program or needed equipment? Lakeside Chautauqua managed to raise $105k by focusing on a local restoration project in their community.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

There is also your new classification compliments of the BRIDGE Project, and the first universal software for micro finance, another free cloud service. The centerpiece of the philanthropic project is a cloud networking solution that’s free (forever) to 501(c)(3) organizations that need ten licenses or fewer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

For this reason, we try to incorporate some user research into every nonprofit design project we do. Users are accustomed to retail purchases where spending money results in a new object or service rendered. Spending money on a nonprofit site is different because the user doesn’t directly benefit from the purchase.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

In 2008, I worked with one museum director for whom the word "wiki" is synonymous with "Wikipedia." For example, the concept that "time is money" is a culturally-specific metaphor. If the metaphor you are using as a basis for a design project is fundamentally different from a colleague's metaphor, you have a problem.

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